Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Guns N’ Roses leader Axl Rose has tweeted a series of rants regarding the recent killing of a two-year-old giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo.

The Zoo killed the healthy baby giraffe and fed its remains to lions as visitors watched, while ignoring a petition signed by thousands and offers from other zoos and a private individual to save the animal; the facility claimed the killing was needed to prevent inbreeding.

"But seriously, let me get this straight...,” he continued. “The Danes killed a 2yr old baby giraffe, chopped it up n' fed him to the lions (allegedly in front of kids) to avoid inbreeding rather than find a place for it. Maybe this is a big problem over there I don't know but I'm not getting how this deters siblings n' various other assorted Danish family members from f-in' each other?! J/k :)”

Rose followed up his posts with another tweet, writing, “Lemme get a Giraffica, a homemade cherry Danish, some o' them pre-fried Pepper's... Oh! n' a liter of cola!”

It’s the second time this month Rose has been active online; he wrote an op-ed piece for Billboard regarding the controversy over the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ mimed performance during the Super Bowl 48 halftime show in New Jersey – read it here.

Guns N’ Roses will return to Las Vegas this spring to play their second residency at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

An official statement regarding concert dates has not been issued yet by the group or venue.

In the fall of 2012, GNR performed a 12-show run at The Joint: “Appetite For Democracy” saw the band play the biggest hits from their debut album, “Appetite For Destruction” (1987) through to 2008’s “Chinese Democracy.”